I’d like to set some things right about the power and purity of our intuitions. All too often, everything we think is oversimplified and thrown into the categories of either the carnal mind or the prophetic. If there is any thought that comes along seeming to be a little more that factual known evidence it [...]
I’d like to set some things right about the power and purity of our intuitions. All too often, everything we think is oversimplified and thrown into the categories of either the carnal mind or the prophetic. If there is any thought that comes along seeming to be a little more that factual known evidence it tends to be referred to as prophetic. The prophetic then becomes a pile of incidents of the unknown causing judgments of spirituals to get increasingly more harsh and even condemning.
Although it is not difficult to understand, the soul of man is more intricate than we have made it. Intuition is not the same as prophetic.
Intuition is a conglomeration of angelic helps, the operation of creation, experience and emotion. We should consider our intuition an extraordinary thing and even give it close attention. I believe that we should even honor the intuitive abilities that we have and give them place in our lives in order to become all that we are meant to be.
Prophetic, on the other hand, is the articulation of the Holy Spirit.
In contrast, intuition is “thinking with your heart” instead of your intellect. Yet, intuition does not have to oppose the brain. In the lineal thinking of a computerized generation there is a desire to have every activity in its place. Machines are not smarter than people. It is our intuition is that makes the difference. Computer may be deductive but they can never truly be intuitive.
If we take a quick look at how the Father create us in gender we will find that intelligence is equal to both male and female. Along this line, women may be “weaker vessels” but they are not weaker people. Men, by brute strength, tend to look in a most lineal way at almost everything and in general they don’t tend to exercise their abilities to feel their way through life. This produces a sizeable lack and thus the need to be helped. So, men tend to mix intellect with strength and energy, while women combine their intelligence with their heart.
In my emergency medical training I was taught to pay close attention to the mothers intuition, as it usually was more correct than our feeble attempts at science. You see, science has the ability of leading you down the wrong path without the coalition of the power of the mothers intuition.
Great leaders, great explorers, great inventors, great entrepreneurs, both use and rely upon their intuition. Intellect is important and should be cherished as from God, Who placed it within us. Yet, if “His peace passes our understanding,” then it must be that our hearts were made to overwhelm our intelligence when God is near.
Irene has schooled me in the university of the heart. I know intimacy with God through her struggles to make me see with my heart. I think wives do this well if they are given an entrance into the heart of their husbands. Learning to see and understand with my heart strengthens my intuitive abilities and I am able to substantiate my intellect while I grow closer to the Spirit of the Lord where I can come in contact with His voice.
I think the best followers are the true leaders and those followers, or servant leaders need intuitive input more and more. Our servant/leadership team has a way of saying this. We say, “It seems good to us and the Holy Ghost.” This means that our hearts are responding in the affirmative. So then, we are not responding only with the facts given to our intellects but by the participation of our hearts as well.
It is not healthy to misrepresent the prophetic by operating from intuition. Neither is it responsible to give intuition a bad name by demoralizing it nor causing an opinion that it is unclean. Intellect should be cherished. Intuition should be equally honored. Prophecy should be “earnestly desired.”
What happens if we call everything that is above the know facts prophetic? We will then find that the prophetic is wrong. Wrong prophecy is possibly “false prophecy.” This all stems from an improper perspective and speech concerning the intuition we’ve been given. Many people say that the Lord tells them things and when those things turn out to be wrong they either try to ignore the wrong prophecy, develop a poor opinion of the Father God and condemn themselves, or place themselves in an arrogant state of social behavior.
A far better language would be, “I feel,” “it seems,” or “I perceive,” rather than “I see,” “I’m hearing,” or “the Lord says.” For some unknown reason our egos are massaged by letting people know we are prophetic as opposed to being able to be led by our hearts through perceiving or feeling. You see, at any given moment it is socially acceptable for my heart to be wrong but it is never acceptable for prophecy to be incorrect. We should learn to present our hearts more than we present ourselves as prophets. We should learn to accept others in the same way.
If we would seek a proper definition of intellect, intuition and prophecy, and put them to use in their proper strengths and uses, we would be able to healthily seek the Father in all ways and witness the Lord moving in, through and with us at all times.
When Jesus said, “Follow me.” They followed their hearts. Thus, they followed Him. Ask the children where Jesus is. They’ll tell you, “He’s in my heart.” Follow your heart. Follow Him.
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